🇬🇧 UK judge dismisses $770M Bitcoin landfill hard drive case

A UK judge has dismissed James Howells' legal case to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC mined in 2009, currently valued at about $770 million, from a landfill. Howells accidentally discarded the hard drive in 2013 when Bitcoin was trading at only $13.

The judge noted there was no realistic chance of success and upheld the council's claim that it owned the hard drive, ruling that Howells was not entitled to attempt its retrieval.

Howells has speculated that the bitcoin on his hard drive could be worth £1 billion by next year and has vowed to take his case to the Supreme Court.